{"id":37478,"date":"2025-07-17T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37478"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:46:33","slug":"solayers-joshua-sum-stablecoins-arent-workarounds-theyre-the-future-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=37478","title":{"rendered":"Solayer&#8217;s Joshua Sum: &#8216;Stablecoins Aren&#8217;t Workarounds \u2014 They&#8217;re The Future Rails&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As traditional finance giants roll out tokenized rewards and stablecoin payment rails, <strong>Solayer<\/strong>&#8216;s Head of Product, <strong>Joshua Sum<\/strong>, says the company sees these developments not as threats, but as validation of its crypto-native approach. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Benzinga ahead of the Solayer Travel launch, Sum highlighted why speed, composability, and real-world perks will be critical differentiators as competition intensifies.<\/p>\n<p>Web3 infrastructure firm Solayer today launched Solayer Travel, a crypto-native hotel booking platform promising discounts of up to 60% at over one million global hotels. <\/p>\n<p>The service is exclusively accessible to Emerald Card holders, who use a crypto-linked <strong>Visa<\/strong> card powered by <strong>USDC<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The move signals the company&#8217;s broader ambition to integrate on-chain finance into everyday use cases.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Sum discussed how the company is positioning its Emerald Card within a financial landscape increasingly populated by traditional finance (TradFi) players experimenting with stablecoins and tokenized loyalty programs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We see TradFi&#8217;s entry into stablecoins and tokenized rewards as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46469462\/solayers-joshua-sum-stablecoins-arent-workarounds-theyre-the-future-rails\" alt=\"Solayer's\" joshua sum: aren workarounds they the future rails>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As traditional finance giants roll out tokenized rewards and stablecoin payment rails, Solayer&#8216;s Head of Product, Joshua Sum, says the company sees these developments not as threats, but as validation of its crypto-native approach. Speaking to Benzinga ahead of the Solayer Travel launch, Sum highlighted why speed, composability, and real-world perks will be critical differentiators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-37478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}